Verde Salon to host Green Your Community event for Braintree salons

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May 15, 2017 at 4:47 PM

Verde Salon, in partnership with Green Circle Salons, will host a Green Your Community event at 7 p.m. May 19 at the salon, 89 Hancock St., Braintree.

Green Circle Salons is a nationwide company with a mission to help the salon industry reduce its environmental footprint via the company’s innovative recycling and repurposing services. This includes the repurposing of hair for the creation of oil spill booms, emergency bedding, production of bioplastics and other sustainable research applications. GCS diverts waste from landfill spaces in 49 states and 10 Canadian provinces and has the capacity to service every zip and postal code in North America.

All Braintree area salons are challenged to save up one week’s worth of their hair clippings, aerosol cans and chemical-laden foils and bring them to the Green Your Community event. Green Circle Salons will collect the bags of hair and foils/metals and take them away for recycling or repurposing. Green Circle will plant one tree for every attendee, and salons that sign up at the event to recycle with Green Circle will receive a free membership to the program.

“At Verde Salon we are serious about sustainability,” said Ashley Sexton, co-owner of Verde Salon. “Our clients have told us it's important to them, and so we simply had to do our part by joining the Green Circle movement. It was a no-brainer for us, as they make it simple. They set up the recycling bins and literally overnight we became the greenest salon on the South Shore! I'm now calling on our community to come together in a remarkable way that showcases our green mindset.”

At the event, Sexton and co-owner Deanna Warwick will show their fellow salon owners and stylists how they’ve set up their recycling bins and the impact it has made for them in the hopes of getting every salon in the Braintree area to become certified sustainable.